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I don't think that looks too bad, all things considered.
An f4.5 lens is a bit slow and it is certainly a limiting factor. Also I'm assuming that it was pretty warm when you took these? as temperature greatly increases noise.
For a shot like this with objects in the foreground with the sky behind, the main way to improve is to get more light onto the sensor in a shorter time. This means a faster lens and I would say a minimum aperture of f2.8, and preferably something around f1.8.
You could also try some noise reduction in whatever software you use. If you do that you should be able to push a bit more detail from the darker areas without killing it with noise.
If you were just shooting the sky, with nothing in the foreground, then you could take many images and stack them together to improve the signal to noise ratio.
EDIT: Russell beat me to it!
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